Fun with USB SSD and Linux

[Billiam29]

You may be able to hack away at ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and the Gtk3 css for your theme but... try this...

Hold down the Alt key, right-click and drag.

Now your corner gripper extends to the entire window. That should be big enough for you

That's dark magic I tell you!

Seriously though, thanks much! Key modifiers for the DE never even entered my mind.

 

[malch]

That's dark magic I tell you!

Seriously though, thanks much! Key modifiers for the DE never even entered my mind.

Here are some useful things for Manjaro Xfce:

sudo pacman-mirrors --country United_States # Select US mirrors only. Sticky.
sudo pacman-mirrors -f0 # Refresh and rank mirrors

sudo pacman -S expac
Create /usr/bin/lspkg # and chmod 755
#!/bin/sh
expac -H M '%m\t%n %v' | sort -h

lspkg will list the installed packages and version by size.

Settings | Mouse and set double-click speed to 500ms [the 250ms default is a PITA]

Add to: /etc/pacman.conf
[herecura]
Server = https://repo.herecura.be/herecura/x86_64

Useful repo for Chrome, Vivaldi, Opera and more.

 

[Billiam29]

Thanks very much for this additional info. It’s almost certain to save me quite a bit of time going forward.

In what can’t be the slightest bit surprising, the Manjaro/Arch way of handling package management and repositories is really the only thing that feels like an actual challenge to my ingrained familiarity with the Ubuntu/Debian world. Anything else more or less feels just “a little different.” BTW, whatever the out-of-the-box repo configuration happens to be was smoking fast for me when the system first updated itself.

Anecdote:
One of the latent IT practices still left in me is to locate log files on their own disk partition whenever practical. Because of this I pretty much always have /var mounted on a separate partition in my Linux installs. For about 2-3 years now anything Ubuntu based has spit out a bogus “failed to unmount /var” failure message during shutdowns. Interestingly, my new Manjaro install does the same thing. So even if I do zero else with this install its at least taught me that this particular issue is probably in the kernel and not in the Debian or Ubuntu bases. Just surprised it's been around so long even if it is only a cosmetic problem.

 

[malch]

In what can’t be the slightest bit surprising, the Manjaro/Arch way of handling package management and repositories is really the only thing that feels like an actual challenge to my ingrained familiarity with the Ubuntu/Debian world.

pacman is very easy and usually does things right first time.

There are some GUI front ends but I never really saw the need.

yaourt is great for installing most other things from the Arch User Repository (AUR). The UI is profoundly ugly but it usually works. When it doesn't because a combination of updates broke something, I usually wait and give the community a day or three to fix it. More often than not, it's fixed.

With AUR the whole configure/make/make install thing is almost never required.